Natural hazards versus climate change and their potential impactsin the dry, northern Himalayas: focus on the upper Kali Gandaki(Mustang District, Nepal)
International audience In the Himalayas, the consequences of climate change are a fairly debated issue, mainly questioning theavailability of water resources to the lowland population.North of the monsoon Himalayas, a semi-arid, continental climate prevails and settlements rely economically mostlyon...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.vx708k 2023-05-15T17:58:05+02:00 Natural hazards versus climate change and their potential impactsin the dry, northern Himalayas: focus on the upper Kali Gandaki(Mustang District, Nepal) Fort, Monique Pôle de recherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique (PRODIG) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris-Sorbonne (UP4)-AgroParisTech-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2015-01-01 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01208221/file/14-Fort%20Mustang%20EES%2012665-014-3087-y.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01208221 en eng HAL CCSD Springer hal-01208221 10670/1.vx708k https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01208221/file/14-Fort%20Mustang%20EES%2012665-014-3087-y.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01208221 Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société ISSN: 1866-6280 EISSN: 1866-6299 Environmental Earth Sciences Environmental Earth Sciences, Springer, 2015, 73 (2), p. 801-814 Arid uplands Himalayas of Nepal Mustang District Natural hazards Climate change geo envir Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2015 fttriple 2023-01-22T16:33:04Z International audience In the Himalayas, the consequences of climate change are a fairly debated issue, mainly questioning theavailability of water resources to the lowland population.North of the monsoon Himalayas, a semi-arid, continental climate prevails and settlements rely economically mostlyon irrigated crops, high altitude rangelands, trade and tourism. The upper Kali Gandaki (Mustang) is situated inthis area, with sharp contrasts between valley bottoms (\3,000 m) and high, glaciated peaks (up to[8,000 m).The impacts of climate change may appear in different ways. Gullying is common, and might increase with greaterclimate variability. Increased ground instabilities (earthflows and occasional debris flows) affecting extensiveshale/marly substrates are also expected, linked to changes in snow cover and seasonality. Similarly, the combinationof higher snowfall and rapid melting may favour the occurrence of flash floods. The possibility of glacial outburstfloods is less probable because of the present limited glaciation. Eventually, permafrost melting may induce rockavalanches down the steepest cliffs and might impact the adjacent valley floors. Collectively, these hazards willaffect irrigation canals and fields, new infrastructures and the associated growing settlements. Water availability inthe near future is more difficult to predict; however, any change in the amount and nature of precipitation mayaffect groundwater reserves, hence spring discharge and runoff, with consequences for agricultural products.Eventually, the overall potential increase in natural hazards may jeopardize the development of small markets and thegood connection of these upper valleys to the main urban centres of Nepal, a country with a very low economic andsocial capacity to adjust. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost Unknown Kali ENVELOPE(144.648,144.648,59.871,59.871) |
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International audience In the Himalayas, the consequences of climate change are a fairly debated issue, mainly questioning theavailability of water resources to the lowland population.North of the monsoon Himalayas, a semi-arid, continental climate prevails and settlements rely economically mostlyon irrigated crops, high altitude rangelands, trade and tourism. The upper Kali Gandaki (Mustang) is situated inthis area, with sharp contrasts between valley bottoms (\3,000 m) and high, glaciated peaks (up to[8,000 m).The impacts of climate change may appear in different ways. Gullying is common, and might increase with greaterclimate variability. Increased ground instabilities (earthflows and occasional debris flows) affecting extensiveshale/marly substrates are also expected, linked to changes in snow cover and seasonality. Similarly, the combinationof higher snowfall and rapid melting may favour the occurrence of flash floods. The possibility of glacial outburstfloods is less probable because of the present limited glaciation. Eventually, permafrost melting may induce rockavalanches down the steepest cliffs and might impact the adjacent valley floors. Collectively, these hazards willaffect irrigation canals and fields, new infrastructures and the associated growing settlements. Water availability inthe near future is more difficult to predict; however, any change in the amount and nature of precipitation mayaffect groundwater reserves, hence spring discharge and runoff, with consequences for agricultural products.Eventually, the overall potential increase in natural hazards may jeopardize the development of small markets and thegood connection of these upper valleys to the main urban centres of Nepal, a country with a very low economic andsocial capacity to adjust. |
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Pôle de recherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique (PRODIG) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris-Sorbonne (UP4)-AgroParisTech-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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Natural hazards versus climate change and their potential impactsin the dry, northern Himalayas: focus on the upper Kali Gandaki(Mustang District, Nepal) |
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Natural hazards versus climate change and their potential impactsin the dry, northern Himalayas: focus on the upper Kali Gandaki(Mustang District, Nepal) |
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Natural hazards versus climate change and their potential impactsin the dry, northern Himalayas: focus on the upper Kali Gandaki(Mustang District, Nepal) |
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